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Oil Prices Tick Up
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  • Iran Desalination Capacity to Rise by 300,000 Cubic Meters Per Day by 2021
    In the past six years, 39 desalination units with a capacity of approximately 174,000 cubic meters per day (63.7 million cubic meters a year), are operating mostly in the southern coasts. Sixty...
  • Gas Role in Global Energy Transition Prominent
    Gas has an important role to play in the global energy transition, according to the head of EMEA natural resources research at Goldman Sachs.   
  • China Taking Iran Oil
    China’s still importing oil from Iran weeks after the US imposed sanctions aimed at halting sales of crude from the Persian Gulf nation.  
  • Iranian MPs Differ Over Raising Fuel Prices
    Although the three branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial) have come to the conclusion that gasoline prices should increase, there is still no consensus among MPs about the...
  • Iran Gas Company Wins 2019 National Energy Globe Award
    Private companies’ efforts in Iran are noteworthy in that they seek to develop global initiatives to help safeguard the environment. Christoph Grabmayr, the Austrian Embassy's commercial counselor...
  • Oil Prices Edge Up
    Oil prices nudged higher on Wednesday on rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, a sharp fall in US crude stocks and positive signs on Sino-US talks, although worries about weak demand kept a cap on...
  • Cogeneration Plant for Mazandaran
    A 7.12 megawatt combined heat and power (CHP) plant was inaugurated in Amol County, Mazandaran Province. According to the Energy Ministry news portal (Paven), Babakan Power Plant, built over 2,000...
  • Remote Regions in Lorestan Benefit From Green Energy
    Electricity demand in 12 remote towns in Khorramabad and Aligudarz counties in Lorestan Province is being met fully with the help of small-scale photovoltaic (PV) power stations, head of provincial...
  • Iran Has Some Hope for Gas Deal With Pakistan
    Following the contract signed between Iran and Pakistan in 1999 to complete a gas pipeline to help address Pakistan’s electricity problems, Tehran has fulfilled its commitments regarding...
  • Rise in Power Consumption Disturbing
    Power consumption hit a new record on Monday as it reached a peak of 57,681 megawatts, the Energy Ministry’s spokesman for the power department said in Tehran. “Electricity consumption has risen...
  • Japan Will Continue Importing Middle East Oil
    Japan will continue importing crude oil from the Middle East despite escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, but will also make efforts to diversify supply sources, Minister of Economy, Trade...
  • Iran Dams Are Emptying, Again
    The amount of water stored in dams has dwindled by 9% between May 22 and June 22. Dams across the country held 40.6 billion cubic meters of water in May, but the level fell to 37.3 bcm in June,...
  • Gasoline Consumption at All Time High
    Gasoline consumption between 2011 and 2017 has shot up 50% that (regretfully) is big enough to be registered in the Guinness World Record, the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company...
  • China, UAE Sign Exploration, Refining Agreement
    China National Offshore Oil Co (CNOOC) has signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) on upstream exploration and development, oil refining and liquefied natural gas trade, ADNOC...
  • Brent, WTI Rise More Than 2%
    Oil prices rose more than 2% on Monday on concerns that Iran’s seizure of a British tanker last week may lead to supply disruptions in the energy-rich Persian Gulf.  
  • Connecting Baluchestan Cities, Power Plants to Gas Network
    Expanding the gas network in southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province is on the government agenda, the managing director of National Iranian Gas Company said. Work is underway to build and lay...
  • Smart Meter Program Making Headway
    Five million energy-intensive agricultural, households and commercial units will be equipped with smart electricity meters during the second phase of the National Smart Metering Program (known as...
  • Yazd Gas Grid Expanding to Mountain Regions
    Gas supply to Yazd Province has been expedited and almost 90% of its small towns and villages are now connected to the national gas grid, managing director of the provincial gas company said. “All...
  • Oil Tanker Released From Jeddah Port
    The Iranian oil tanker ‘Happiness 1’ that was held at Jeddah port in Saudi Arabia for over two months has been released.  
  • Kerman Water Project Near Completion
    The project to transfer drinking water from Safa Rud Dam to Kerman City in southern Kerman Province will be completed in two weeks, managing director of Kerman Regional Water Company said. “...
  • Sa’adatabad Oilfield Development Plan on Track
    Operations to increase output from Sa’adatabad Oilfield, in southern Fars Province, started Wednesday, with $18.7 million investment, managing director of the Central Iranian Oil Fields Company...
  • Iran's PSEEZ Reports Higher Petrochemical Exports
    An estimated 1.5 million tons of petrochemicals were exported to Asia, Europe and Africa from Pars Special Economic Energy Zone, southeast of Bushehr Province, between May 22 and June 21, the head...
  • Iran Willing to Invest in India Refinery
    Iran is willing and ready to invest in the development of Nagapattinam refinery in Southern Tamil Nadu state, a senior Iranian diplomat said in New Delhi on Wednesday.  
  • France May Shut Nuclear Power Plant
    French utility EDF could shut down production at its 2,600 megawatt capacity Golfech nuclear power plant in the south of France from July 23, due to the high temperature forecast on the Garonne...
  • Birol: IEA Concerned About Tensions in Hormuz Strait
    The International Energy Agency is "significantly" concerned about geopolitical tensions, including in the Strait of Hormuz, but oil markets are currently well supplied and unlikely to see "huge...

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